核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a surface that nothing has ever smoothed. Rock breaks through it in hard blocks, the edges are sharp, and between the blocks are cracks and sudden drops. You can see, just by looking, that the surface would be rough under your hand. Everything craggy does comes from that one surface — first a real , then a face that has been worn the same way.

這個字可以想成一片從來沒有被磨平的表面。岩塊硬硬地突出來,邊緣是尖的,塊與塊之間有裂縫,也有落差。你光是用看的,就知更多收起這個字可以想成一片從來沒有被磨平的表面。岩塊硬硬地突出來,邊緣是尖的,塊與塊之間有裂縫,也有落差。你光是用看的,就知道摸上去會刮手。craggy 的每一種用法,都是從這一片表面長出來的:先是真正的山壁和海岸,然後是一張被歲月用同樣方式磨出來的臉。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary analyses craggy as crag + -y. A crag is a steep rough rock that sticks out of a hillside, and -y means full of, so the word begins as land full of crags — which is exactly the surface the modern core image describes.

Wiktionary 把 craggy 分析成 crag + -y。crag 指從山坡突出來的陡峭粗糙岩塊,-y 表示「充滿…的」,所以這個字一開始就是「滿是突出岩塊的地方」。核心畫面裡那片不平的表面,正好就是這個組合說的東西。

Wiktionary entry for craggy, supplied in packet evidence (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:22384343:11366): From crag + -y.

One branch

沒有被磨平的粗糙表面

兩個意思其實共用同一片表面,只是一個長在地上,一個長在人身上。

adjective · C1

Craggy land is steep and covered with rough, sharp rocks that stick out of it. It is used about mountains, hills, cliffs and rocky coasts.

嶙峋陡峭的